Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-10-01
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Gathered From Our Exchanges From All
Over The TerrituJ.

Washington county has 1910 chill
dren of school age.
Cassia has had over 100000 bush
els of grain threshed this season.
Barrett's show is visiting points
along the Oregon Short Line.
Fruit peddlers have been doing a
paying business in south Idaho.
Grain is worth eighty-fve. cents a
hundred in Bear Lake county.
Six hundred thousand pounds of
wool have been shipped from Noun
tain Home.
The Salvation Army has struck
HALEY and HALEY is none the gamer
by the strike.
Idaho's Grand Army men are rev.
cling in the glories of the annual re-
union at St Louis to-day.
Teachers Institutes are being held
in several towns of Idaho and we rise
to move that one be held in Blackfoot.
The court at Salmon City was short
and sweet The Judge was in capital
trim for business and business it was.
Cassia county has positively deter
mined upon preliminary survey of
Snake river canal in that county.
The taxable property of Washing
ton county amounts to s783,8S9. Tax
levy for the year $3.50.
The bachelors club at Caldwell fair
offers SIS gold lined cup to the pref
test girl baby not over one year old.
1t Is stated that Van Meter and
Genoways agents for the Geneva
Nursery, have sold $4,000 worth of
trees in the county this fall.
The NJ E. church at Shoshone paid
its pastor and presiding elder s14.19
more than their assessments SLIGO.
10 besides over 5000 in incidental
expenses.
Kuna, the railroad station for
Boise, has been stripped of its glory
since the branch road was opened
from Nampa
Bear Lake has a number of hay
presses at work and large amount
of hay is being shipped to different
points. Bingham county should have
a number at work too, but she has
not.
The citizens of HALEY are moving
to have the law preventing aliens from
owing miningo or landed property re
pealed by the coming congress. 1t is
claimed that Idaho has lost several
millions of dollars this season in con-
sequence Of that law. Delegate Dubois
has pledged his efforts to its repeal.
G. w. Richards, editor of the HALEY
News Miner has been indicted by a
grand jury of Boise City for libelling
Milton Kelly of the Statesman. This
is something new under the sun, for
one editor to have a brother editor
and both of the same political faith
indicted for libel. The longer we live
the longer we live.
Journal Shoshone has reason to
be gratifed at her excellent public
school under the charge of J. W. Faris,
principal, Mrs. Updegraf and Mrs
Joslyn assistants. Until the fine two.
story high school building is complet-
ed the latter teacher occupies the NJ.
e. Church. The new school house
reached the second story to-day, and
the frame work is now being placed
in position for the upper floor.
The Ketchum Keystone says that
business there was never better thar
it is this Fall. The freight receipts
for August show an increase of nearly
100 per cent, over those for August
1886. The bullion shipment for the
month amounted to $50, 1913 pounds
an increase of 49O,158 pounds ovel
those for August, 1886.
r. B. Brown, of Atlanta, showed
the HALEY Times man gold nugget
which is probably the largest evel
found in Idaho. 1t weighs 224 ounces
worth $16 per ounce, and was found
by George Lilies, in Quartzgulch At
lanta, below the Monarch and Last
Chance mines, about two months ago
A great many smaller nuggets were
found at the same place about the
same time, Mr.. Lilies having evi
IDENTIFY discovered spot hole" such
as old placer-miners are familiar with
The Democrat acknowledges cal
from F. T. Dubois, Delegate in con